Minutes of the Rising Sun Four Wheel Drive Club December 5, 2001 Meeting
Video of the Hackett Gulch and Moody Hill/Crystal Lake Rising Sun trail runs
was provided by Mike Aaron and displayed from 7:20 to 7:50. (Secretary's
comment: "Great footage Mike, thanks!)
The meeting was called to order at 7:50 by Commander Rob Meredith.
Officer's reports:
Minutes were not read aloud as they had previously been posted on the
mailing list a hard copy was not available.
Dave Armbruster reported that we have $1007.62 balance.
Dean Baranski reported that he had made all arrangements for the club
Christmas party; details on time and place etc. are ommited here because
it's history (Secretary's comment, thanks Dean, it was a great success and a
blast!).
Mike Aaron reported on the Hackett Gulch and Moody Hill/Crystal Mountain
Rising Sun trail runs the previous month.
There was no Land Use report.
Not part of officer's reports, but at this time the subject of January runs
came up, Kevin Ehrlick volunteered to lead a January snow run. Central City,
and Metberry are both suggested as possible trails to do.
Old Business:
Kevin Ehrlick distributed copies of the 11/1/01 revision of the bylaws,
which incorporates the bylaw committee's proposed wording of the changes
which had been voted on by the membership at the previous meeting. There
were some other copies there (Phil Simmons?).
While the documents were being distributed, Mike Aaron made a motion to
nominate Christo Slee for membership in Rising Sun. Neil Quigley seconded,
and the motion was carried by a vote of the membership.
After much discussion of various points in the bylaw changes, Rob decided to
put off a formal vote on the changes until the next meeting. One reason for
this postponement was that there were two different versions of the proposed
revised bylaws being circulated at the meeting, and it was unclear which was
the latest, although it was probably the one which incorporated the wording
to support TLCA which was voted on at the November meeting.
One change in particular which was pressing, was changing the provision of
who is the official TLCA delegate from Land Use Coordinator to Commander (or
Commander's appointee). Dave Brown made a motion to make this effective
immediately, Bill Van Beek seconded and the motion was carried by a vote of
the membership. Commander Rob Meredith then formally appointed Jeff Zepp as
interim club Secretary until voting for BOD was final, as the current
Secretary was unavailable at the meeting and the TLCA delegate form needed
to be signed by the Secretary and filed with TLCA right away.
New Business:
Dave Brown announced that there are approximately 48,000 back issues of
Toyota Trails in Bruce Miller's company's warehouse, and that they need to
be moved out of there very soon. American Web prints approximately 3500
extra issues each printing, and they have been piling up. Bruce is moving
both his home and his company soon and the pallets of TTs need to go
elsewhere. Kevin Ehrlick suggested that it would be a cool club event to go
observe Toyota Trails at American Web while it is being printed. Dean
Baranski offered to store them, then bring them to meetings. Ige Gustavson
also donated storage space in her storage unit. They were reminded that the
amount of space required for storage may be more than they were thinking, on
the order of 40+ pallets.
Election of club officers for 2002 were held. Results:
Commander: Rob Meredith
Vice Commander: Dean Baranski
Secretary: Jeff Zepp
Treasurer: Phil Simmons
Land Use Coordinator: Matt Lewis
Webmaster: Bruce Minney
Event Coordinator: Mike Aaron
Jeff Zepp suggested that the club have a plaque or some kind of certificate
of appreciation for Larry Miller hosting us. Ige Gustavson motioned to
allocate $50 to have one made, Dean BAranski seconded the motion and it was
carried by a vote of the membership.
Jeff Zepp suggested that we have some kind of group photo. Ige Gustavson
suggested that it include rigs and bios.
Since the proposed changes in the bylaws make membership effective from Jan
1 through Dec 31 in a calendar year, and current members have been paying
dues for the Apr 1 through Mar 31 period, Rob clarified that the dues will
be prorated to 75% for those already paid through the end of March, 2002.
Jeff Zepp made a motion to authorize up to $400 in club funds for the
Christmas party to reimburse Dean for food, prizes and expenses. Phil
Simmons seconded the motion, and it was carried by a vote of the membership.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45